My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces : methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments

Keller, Samuel

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28456

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces : methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments
Authors:	Keller, Samuel
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001 10.21256/zhaw-28456
Published in:	Children and Youth Services Review
Volume(Issue):	150
Issue:	107001
Issue Date:	2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0190-7409
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	362.7: Youth services
Abstract:	Despite much discourse on growing-up environment as a central dimension of “child-well-being”, little is still known about why, how, and where meanings are created in it for children. For despite ongoing efforts in childhood research, children's perspectives remain methodologically poorly embedded. Therefore, the author of this paper asks about relevance settings in children’s lifeworld - derived exemplarily from adopted preschool children’s environments. For this purpose, the author sets the demanding methodological balancing act between trivialising and exaggerating childhood in the research process as a central challenge. He makes it possible by a visual immersion in photographs taken by young children. In doing so, the arguments sometimes push into the hybrid and transformative. As a result, not only possibilities to always switch between dimensions of ‘My Cosmos’, ‘My Possibilities’ and ‘Our Places’ become apparent as relevant to environment of growing up. The findings can also be read as an encouragement to research and argue more consistently and creatively. They show step by step why and how new paths can be taken and socio-scientific fears of the non-linguistic overcome to take research and thinking decisively further.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28456
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement:	Social Work
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family (IKJF)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	Zürcher Adoptionsstudie
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Soziale Arbeit

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Keller, S. (2023). My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces : methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments. Children and Youth Services Review, 150(107001). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001

Keller, S. (2023) ‘My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces : methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments’, Children and Youth Services Review, 150(107001). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001.

S. Keller, “My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces : methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments,” Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 150, no. 107001, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001.

KELLER, Samuel, 2023. My cosmos, my opportunities, our spaces : methodological reflections on photographic perspectives of young adopted children on their (new) environments. Children and Youth Services Review. 2023. Bd. 150, Nr. 107001. DOI 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001

Keller, Samuel. 2023. “My Cosmos, My Opportunities, Our Spaces : Methodological Reflections on Photographic Perspectives of Young Adopted Children on Their (New) Environments.” Children and Youth Services Review 150 (107001). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001.

Keller, Samuel. “My Cosmos, My Opportunities, Our Spaces : Methodological Reflections on Photographic Perspectives of Young Adopted Children on Their (New) Environments.” Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 150, no. 107001, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107001.